Beech is for people who are constantly making criticisms, intolerant of other people's shortcomings and unable to make allowances. They find it hard to see the good in others. They have a strong sense of their own superiority, can be judgmental and arrogant and are easily irritated by other people's mannerisms or habits. They are convinced that they are always in the right and everyone else in the wrong (see also Impatiens).

The positive potential of Beech is tolerance and a sense of compassion for and unity with others' the positive Beech person can see the good in others despite their imperfections.